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General Software Discussion / Online Armor 5

« Last post by Curt on April 11, 2011, 08:04 AM »

Their prices are not too low, so I hope "we" can get a discount
for the new Emsisoft Online Armor version 5:

http://www.emsisoft.com/

Emsisoft Online Armor Firewall 5.0 available!
Emsisoft Online Armor Firewall 5.0

A Firewall keeps a constant eye on the data traffic of your computer and only allows Internet and local network connections for authorized programs and processes. In recent years, Emsisoft Online Armor has made a name for itself as a comprehensive security solution that is also easy to understand and operate for those who are not computer experts.

This Firewall not only protects the user against attacks from the Internet but also allows permanent monitoring of suspicious system-internal processes. Online Armor is therefore also a full-featured HIPS (Host Intrusion Protection System), in other words a type of Firewall for internal operating system processes.

Emsisoft Online Armor is available in three versions:

    * Online Armor Free

      Can be used by home users completely free of charge. The program provides a strong Firewall and comprehensive Web protection. The Freeware version also detects Keyloggers and offers several protection routines to protect the Firewall itself from manipulation.
      
    * Online Armor Premium - US $40 in the first year, then at a lower cost for renewals

      Additionally the Premium version includes access to product support, access to Advanced Mode features, File and Registry protection, DNS-Spoofing protection, automatic updates and the especially important Online-Banking mode that prevents undesirable manipulation of internet banking operations.
      
    * Online Armor ++ - US $60 in the first year, then at a lower cost for renewals

      Also provides an award winning dual scan engine Anti-Virus / Anti-Malware Scanner and a Rootkit Scanner.
        

http://www.emsisoft.com/

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Found Deals and Discounts / Video Factory: $1

« Last post by Curt on April 11, 2011, 02:51 AM »

I don't think shareware gets any cheaper than this:

http://www.softbuy.com/r/1297904006uu979

Listed price: $30
This Deal: $ 0.95 !!

Video Converter Factory Pro is capable of converting almost all frequently used video files. The input video file formats supported by this video converter software include video/Flash/DVD(VOB)... Video Converter Factory Pro provide powerful video editing function and video effect. The video converting software is a real all-in-one video converting tool.

OS:
Win 7/XP/2003/Vista

The deal is only on when at least 10 people have made a purchase. I wonder what is left for the company when PayPal has been paid!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: TELL me how many objects I am deleting!

« Last post by Curt on April 11, 2011, 02:13 AM »

-sorry, I wasn't really polite at all; but your reply is polite.  

I download maybe a hundred files a day, pictures, music files, articles, and programs. In order to keep oversight, I am used to delete right away, once a file is redundant. In these situations there are no backup to rely on; the files were still in the Downloads folder. Of course I use Delete, if I am messing with important stuff (edited: if the file is not too big), but sometimes (quite often) I think: "I am never going to want to keep this file", so I use Shift+Delete. This is where I was supposed to look at Windows' pop-up box and read "Do you really want to...", to see what and how much I am about to delete, but evidently I didn't read it. So, maybe if I hear it...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: TELL me how many objects I am deleting!

« Last post by Curt on April 11, 2011, 01:32 AM »

-yes, nice one, Miles :-)

I don't know why some people want to decide if I should use Shift+Delete or not  [beep!][/beep!].  If you Delete a 10GB file, Windows will use a really long time to delete it. If you Shift+Delete the same file, it will be gone within a second. Other than that, I don't need to delete 45 files very often, but I need on a daily base to remove a few files, quite often one by one. This was my polite answer.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SOLVED: get back my "Open with..."?

« Last post by Curt on April 11, 2011, 12:47 AM »

-yes, it is terrific, but maybe a little overwhelming, when looking at 296 items...

I use CFi ShellToys, which include the pictured bottom line, "Rarely Used..."

This is for a text file:





This solution has turned out to be more trustworthy, because it doesn't alter or remove any keys, things are either 1) on display, 2) rarely used, or 3) hidden (edited: nothing is hidden in my setup).

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General Software Discussion / Re: SOLVED: get back my "Open with..."?

« Last post by Curt on April 10, 2011, 04:54 PM »

Disable / Restore "Send To..." system Menu:

http://www.howtogeek...plorer-context-menu/

SendTo-DisableRestore.zip (0.6 kB - downloaded 270 times.)

-HowToGeek

Tested on my 32-bits Vista

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Coding Snacks / Re: Changing a folder's name text colour

« Last post by Curt on April 10, 2011, 02:28 PM »

I know Iconoid can do it on the desktop, because I did it on my Win 2000, but I don't remember if it also can do it with "normal" folders, or even if it can do it on XP: "Select any color for icon text": http://www.sillysot.com/

Edited:
I also used Customize Folder Shell Extension from http://www.clonesoft...shellicons/index.htm
- will change color of the folder's text.

Regarding folders, it might be a lot easier today to use FolderMarker Pro.

I haven't heard of anything that can change the colour for individual files.

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: TELL me how many objects I am deleting!

« Last post by Curt on April 10, 2011, 01:00 PM »

Yesterday I downloaded a video course, size 10GB (TEN GIGAbytes). It was extremely tiring because the download speed was between 40 to 80 KILObytes per sec. Then removing a couple of old files, I failed to notice that the downloaded 10GB zip container also was marked. And Yes, I used Shift+Delete = Totally Gone!

We know it, at least from giveawayoftheday and support fora, people forget to READ, before clicking. Me too. So my idea is to have a program say out loud the number of objects I am about to delete, when Windows' pop-up box is asking me if I am sure I want to delete these objects. TELL me "three", so I get one extra chance to wake up in time!
 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Listary Update: The new and improved Listary 3 released

« Last post by Curt on April 10, 2011, 11:51 AM »

Thank you for the follow-up, and for the links 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox: Why is svchost.exe and sqlite at war?

« Last post by Curt on April 10, 2011, 04:53 AM »

-

Does it list a process number for the scvhost.exe?

-worstje (April 09, 2011, 09:53 PM)

-no, PIDs are not listed. (I think I will ask Agnitum to do this.)

--------
mahesh2k, I hope you will figure out what your problem with Firefox is about, so you don't have to use Revo Uninstalller (or similar) to remove ALL of Firefox - but it might be necessary.

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General Software Discussion / Firefox: Why is svchost.exe and sqlite at war?

« Last post by Curt on April 09, 2011, 09:42 PM »

I had a look inside my Outpost Security Suite Pro 7.1's log,
and realized that a war is going on!     

Page up and down the Event Viewer has this one incident every few seconds:

svchost.exe
   Access to protected application data is blocked   
C:\Users\Curt\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\dxhgv8j7.default\signons.sqlite

-Application Guard

-meaning svchost.exe is blocked by Outpost from reaching this signons.sqlite (in Firefox 3.6).

What is that war about? 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Listary Update: The new and improved Listary 3 released

« Last post by Curt on April 09, 2011, 05:31 PM »

For some reason I have never tested this one. How is it?  

I have a copy of the free version running right now, but somehow I am not very tempted to try it out! I am not quite sure why I am reluctant, but I guess it has to do with the many "Buy Pro"-links. I don't mind the Pro's price, but I do mind the tactics.

I am not into regex, so for me the best argument for this tool would probably be the FbX similarity, and the (missing) text editing...

But how is it?

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General Software Discussion / Re: SOLVED: get back my "Open with..."?

« Last post by Curt on April 09, 2011, 04:27 PM »

NB! It should be noted that the registry keys (on the above shown screenshots) still are exactly as they were before the fix, because the address for the proper key was quite different:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Open With]
@="{09799AFB-AD67-11d1-ABCD-00C04FC30936}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Open With EncryptionMenu]
@="{A470F8CF-A1E8-4f65-8335-227475AA5C46}"

-save as 'Restore OpenWith.reg'

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Living Room / Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?

« Last post by Curt on April 09, 2011, 02:17 AM »

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General Software Discussion / Re: shutdown and startup manger recommendations

« Last post by Curt on April 09, 2011, 02:14 AM »

Auto shutdown, auto shutdown program for Windows, computer auto shutdown software for Windows 7, Vista,XP,2k

$19.95 per license

http://www.drivermag...an.com/autoshutdown/

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General Software Discussion / Re: how do I get back my "Open with..."?

« Last post by Curt on April 08, 2011, 07:15 PM »

Here is another resource. Supposedly the provided .reg file works on both Windows 7 and Vista.
http://www.sevenforu...item-add-remove.html

-sajman99 (April 08, 2011, 06:37 PM)

PERFECT!!   

Many thanks to all of you for helping me out on this,
and one special extra Thank You to sajman99

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General Software Discussion / Re: how do I get back my "Open with..."?

« Last post by Curt on April 08, 2011, 04:18 PM »

Thank you, Miles

It looks almost dangerous...



I will take a closer look tomorrow when I have had some sleep!

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General Software Discussion / Re: how do I get back my "Open with..."?

« Last post by Curt on April 08, 2011, 03:53 PM »

Try following the instructions here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/218805

Use Registry Editor to examine the file association key for unknown file types:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown\shell\openas\command
The "default" value for this key should read:
C:\%windir%\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,OpenAs_RunDLL %1

-Microsoft Knowledge Base

-skwire (April 08, 2011, 01:02 PM)

my Vista reads:
%SystemRoot%\system32\rundll32.exe %SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,OpenAs_RunDLL %1

I would guess it is the same? So the problem may have been caused elsewhere? Hmm...

Info:
There is also key with the name DelegateExecute. Its' value data:

{e44e9428-bdbc-4987-a099-40dc8fd255e7}

However, the one above is named openas and does not have any data defined. My guess would be that this could be the problem. But of course I have no idea what it maybe should read.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown\







?  

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General Software Discussion / SOLVED: get back my "Open with..."?

« Last post by Curt on April 08, 2011, 12:39 PM »

PROBLEM SOLVED   
--------------------

a crappy program removed all of my third party program's entries from my Vista's right-click context menu. I don't remember if my "Open with..." long ago was modified by a third-party program, (I am me, so I guess it was), but also "Open with..." has gone, from every file type that I have checked, and I have no idea how to get it back.

I really need to get back my "Open with..."! Please?  

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Birthday: 1-abc 87% off!

« Last post by Curt on April 07, 2011, 04:13 PM »

  22. 1-abc.net Right Click Configurator: Konfigurieren Sie das Popup-Menü des Windows Explorers!

-Curt (June 11, 2010, 05:06 AM)

I used it once, carefully. I will never do that again! It doesn't matter if you are being careful or not: each and every third-party content will be removed from your context menu!! I am now re-installing en masse almost as if this was a new computer!
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is now the best dialog box enhancer/extender?

« Last post by Curt on April 07, 2011, 12:13 PM »

; .. FileBox eXtender is still way ahead, even no longer supported, since May 27, 2009.

-Curt (February 21, 2011, 05:38 PM)

mentioned elsewhere, but should of course also be mentioned here:
Filebox eXtender was updated in February 2011 ♥

http://www.hyperionics.com/

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General Software Discussion / QT-Writer: 1.7MB

« Last post by Curt on April 07, 2011, 08:29 AM »

http://www.ssuitesof.../qtwriterexpress.htm
http://majorgeeks.co...r_Express_d6892.html
 
They have many programs; all free!, and
all No Java, no .NET, and No ribbons...,
and all runs on all Windows operating systems (WIN32 API Architecture), incl 64-bits.
http://www.ssuitesof...om/freedownloads.htm

SSuite Office Software (Pure Visual Simplicity™)'s QT-Writer Express is merely 1.67 MB, and portable

Have any of you tested this one?  

Features:
# Create presentations
# Create Math Equations / Expressions
# Open and save your documents to PDF, SSP, RTF, DOC, and TXT

Use QT Writer for anything from writing a quick letter to producing an entire book with embedded illustrations, tables of contents, indexes, and bibliographies. QT Writer is a complete and powerful software solution for creating, editing and viewing various types of documents.

A number of available features give you a fine degree of control over the formatting of text, pages, sections of documents, and also entire documents. You may also save your documents in a variety of industry standard formats like pdf, rtf, doc, txt, and our own presentation format ssp. Insert special characters, emotional icons, pictures, and images into your writing for a more colourful display of your thoughts and ideas.

Create pdfs without any additional software. Use the built-in PDF capabilities of QT Writer to share your work easily and with everyone! Adobe Acrobat is NOT required to create these handy files.

This application is also completely and absolutely portable!!

Features:

# Create presentations
# Create Math Equations / Expressions
# Open and save your documents to PDF, SSP, RTF, DOC, and TXT

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anybody know Depeche View?

« Last post by Curt on April 06, 2011, 05:30 PM »

odd pricing for the extended edition, I think.

$20 is of course okay, but it only include updates for six months!
And they don't imply any rebate for upgrading.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: AudialsOne on offer

« Last post by Curt on April 06, 2011, 10:52 AM »

Today (This software was available as a giveaway on April 1, 2011), the Developer is going to reward 3 best improvement suggestions with a lifetime license for Audials One 8 Platinum. So share your valuable ideas and win the prize!

-giveawayoftheday

Launching Audials takes almost forever,
so I suggested a feature...
and now have received a lifetime key for one Audials One 8 Platinum!  

Make it possible to launch only one part, (example: shortcut in Start: 'Open Converter'), in order to save eons of launching time.

-Curt's suggestion

Edited:
Don't think the rewarded suggestions have to be clever ideas! The person who suggested this portable program should be made portable, also received a free key!!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Please make Opera able to open Firefox!

« Last post by Curt on April 05, 2011, 06:08 PM »

THANKS, hpearce!